Saturday, October 10, 2015

Thursday 21st January

Martin Halla is the winner of The Voice Norway. We wonder what The Voice judges will make of his cold collaboration with Ice Music?

Location: Geilo Centre

Price NOK 250,-

Friday 22nd January

10:00 / School Concert

Jon Halvor Bjørnseth: Electronics Wizard

Terje Isungset: Ice Percussion

Maria Skranes: Vocal

Fresh commissioned work and a Ice Music premiere! Brand new music and new instruments performed by youngsters from Geilo School together with Jon Halvor of *Drivhuset* (The Greenhouse) in Oslo.

Old and new skis, famous skis of great heroes, ordinary touring skis, sledges, ski poles, and all other types of transportation on snow and ice have now become instruments!

Location: Geilo Centre

Price Free!

20.00 / Flower Power With African Ice & Groove

Mamadou Diabate: Ice Balafon

Daniel Herskedal: Tubice

Helge Nordbakken: Ice Drums

Snorre Bjerck: Ice Drums

Kristin Voreland: 2016 Festival Artist

Mamadou from Burkina Faso totally amazed the Ice Music Festival 2015 audience. Such was his popularity, we had to invite him. For 2016, Mamadou will be interacting with Tuba Supremo Daniel Herskedal.

Daniel currently holds thethe world record for playing dark tones on a tuba. Can he break the record with the Tubice?

This year’s Ice Music Festival artist: the wonderful Kristin Voreland from Atelier Flora. Winner of the European Champion of Floral Art and with flowers being the visual theme for 2016, Kristin's exhibition will add a beautiful finishing touch to the arena.

Location: Geilo Centre

Price NOK 250,-

22:00 / Icelandic Ice Sessions

Trio Mediæval: Vocals

Arve Henriksen: Ice Trumpet & Vocal

Terje Isungset: Ice Percussion & Ice Horn

Johannes Lundberg: Ice Bass

Trio Mediæval's mesmerising etheral harmonics combined with Arve's infectious improvisation wowed 2015's audience. They return with new work accompanied by Johannes on the Ice Bass.

Location: Geilo Centre

Price NOK 250,-

Saturday 23rd January

15.00 / Family Concert: Three Ice Tasters

Jon Halvor Bjørnseth continues with his ski sound / slide sound in collaboration with young musicians from Geilo.

From Angola, via Portugal to Norway and for 2016 - Geilo's Ice Music Festival! The sassy soulmistress Miss Tati is known for her warm charisma and ability to create a party atmosphere. Dancing in freezing temperatures will certainly heat the ice up...

Location: Geilo Centre

Price NOK 250,-

24:00 / Legendary Midnight Concert

Terje Isungset: Ice Percussion, Ice Horns & general Ice Magic

Gawain Hewitt: Hydrophone - under the lake ice / water sounds!

Maria Skranes: Vocal

Jon Halvor Bjørnseth: Electronics

Trio Mediæval: Vocals

Arve Henriksen: Ice Horn, Vocal & Ice Percussion

Johannes Lundberg: Ice Bass

Art & Design School in Bergen (KHiB)

The second concert arena is born from artwork from KHiB. 14 students and teachers have designed and built the arena on lake "Slåttahølen".

This extra Ice Music Festival location gives us the rare opportunity to hear how music sounds in the water flowing under the thick lake ice. A world first!

Sound Artist Gawain Hewitt brings his hydrophones (underwater microphone) and speakers that can play under water. Arve Henriksen will play down the ice hole and into the water underneath. Everything will be bathed in the sonorous ice of Isungset and the crystal clear voices of Trio Mediæval.

Location: Slåttahølen - the lake shoreline next to Geilo Culture Church

Price NOK 350,-

Sunday 24th January

12.00 / Winter Songs for Refugees

We are all affected by the crises that forces people to flee from the beloved homes and homelands. In this concert we will hear the Ice Music that Isungset tours the world with, in interaction with people who have travelled to Norway from their disputed countries' political upheaval.

Special guests from 'Fargespill', a vocal ensemble consisting of children and youths from all over the world.

Friday, July 03, 2015

This music is composed by Terje Isungset for The Norwegian National Ballet for performances at the Opera House in Oslo, April 2012.

The music was originally composed for a complex surround system, and has now been bounced down to a regular two track recording.

The story is based on a famous book by Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas. His novel "Isslottet", was released in 1963 and was the year after winning the Nordic Council Literature Prize. The novel's main characters are the two young girls: Unn and Siss, who have only spent one evening in each other’s company. But so profound is this evening between them that when Unn inexplicably disappears, Siss’s world is shattered. Siss’s struggle with her fidelity to the memory of her friend and Unn’s fatal exploration of the strange, terrifyingly beautiful frozen waterfall that is the Ice Palace.

The release date of this album is set to the 22nd of July 2015 to remember all teenagers suffering at Utøya in Norway during the terror attack 22nd of July 2011.

Wednesday, July 01, 2015

We had two fantastic recording sessions last week in Norway.
The first one was for Terjes new solo percussion album "Sound of Nature".
The second was a duo recording of drums and trumpets (Arve Henriksen & Terje Isungset).
All to be released by All Ice Records late 2015.

Monday, June 15, 2015

"The experience of the music itself is as ethereal and mysterious as one might expect and the project avoids descending into the realms of the novelty record (just) thanks to the performers’ exploratory mindset and exceptional musicianship. The recording captures the instruments’ elusive dynamics surprisingly well".BBC MUSIC

Thursday, May 07, 2015

"I think the success of this is recording over previous Isungset releases can be attributed to a slightly higher production standard and the use of non-ice instrumentation in conjunction with the proprietary ice instruments that define his sound. An excellent album!"